Predicting protein stability changes upon single-point mutation: a thorough comparison of the available tools on a new dataset.

Autor: Pancotti C; Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Via Santena 19, 10126 Torino, Italy., Benevenuta S; Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Via Santena 19, 10126 Torino, Italy., Birolo G; Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Via Santena 19, 10126 Torino, Italy., Alberini V; Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Via Santena 19, 10126 Torino, Italy., Repetto V; Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Via Santena 19, 10126 Torino, Italy., Sanavia T; Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Via Santena 19, 10126 Torino, Italy., Capriotti E; Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (FaBiT), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy., Fariselli P; Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Via Santena 19, 10126 Torino, Italy.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Briefings in bioinformatics [Brief Bioinform] 2022 Mar 10; Vol. 23 (2).
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab555
Abstrakt: Predicting the difference in thermodynamic stability between protein variants is crucial for protein design and understanding the genotype-phenotype relationships. So far, several computational tools have been created to address this task. Nevertheless, most of them have been trained or optimized on the same and 'all' available data, making a fair comparison unfeasible. Here, we introduce a novel dataset, collected and manually cleaned from the latest version of the ThermoMutDB database, consisting of 669 variants not included in the most widely used training datasets. The prediction performance and the ability to satisfy the antisymmetry property by considering both direct and reverse variants were evaluated across 21 different tools. The Pearson correlations of the tested tools were in the ranges of 0.21-0.5 and 0-0.45 for the direct and reverse variants, respectively. When both direct and reverse variants are considered, the antisymmetric methods perform better achieving a Pearson correlation in the range of 0.51-0.62. The tested methods seem relatively insensitive to the physiological conditions, performing well also on the variants measured with more extreme pH and temperature values. A common issue with all the tested methods is the compression of the $\Delta \Delta G$ predictions toward zero. Furthermore, the thermodynamic stability of the most significantly stabilizing variants was found to be more challenging to predict. This study is the most extensive comparisons of prediction methods using an entirely novel set of variants never tested before.
(© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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